In a culture of “do what thou wilt” with a foundation of “the pursuit of happiness” can anyone wonder that America is a land foundering under its own depravity?  We are a double minded people caught up in the rat race of “getting ahead”, unable to understand Solomon’s concept of “nothing good under the sun” while flagrantly disregarding the Biblical wisdom of “money is the root of all evil”, yet ostensibly we live under a very moral code of laws in the Constitution.

Inherent in the culture promoted within the above, we have, over time, violated many of the rules for good living set down by the ancient Hebrews in their scriptures.  We have NOT learned that “do what thou wilt” (an ancient foundational philosophy of living re-popularized by Aleister Crawley in the early 1900’s), leads to heartache and misery.  The problem is, the heartache and misery are often shoved down the throats of the vulnerable, groups that Yahovah was particularly interested in protecting.

In this 7-part series, I say nothing that has not been said before, for Solomon tells us that there is truly “nothing new under the sun”, but in light of what I believe is a seven-year warning period that started with the “Great American Eclipse” in 2017, I say it at a time when I believe a great disaster is in our near future. My gut says 2024 based on the scriptures declaration that great signs will herald judgements from our Creator.  And what greater sign is an X written in the heart of ones’ nation on April 8, 2024, crossing an area where a great earthquake topographically altered millions of acres in 1811?

I will, admittedly briefly, review the following indictments, one post for each.  One can argue that these are all linked, yes of course they are, but I have a few specific points to share in each, and I believe these to be the most heinous of our crimes.  When reviewing the list below, what one should see is a pattern of evil that starts with our very earliest settlers; a rotten foundation cannot make for a long-lasting nation.

1. Breaking of contracts 
2. Global Theft of land, monetary systems and gold
3. Oppression of certain people groups
4. Rank immorality and depravity 
5. Injustice
6. Unsound mind
7. Human sacrifice and bondage

Job 12: 23-25 He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away. He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s people And makes them wander in a pathless waste. They grope in darkness with no light, And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Intelligence and wisdom are vastly different. One deals with the how and one deals with the why and when. One can have a blueprint for a master building, but one builds it at the right time in the right conditions using the right materials. Failure to meet all of these may get a building built, but may not get it to stand for very long if wisdom is not applied. Turkey has seen this to their loss, for how many buildings collapsed that did not need to because corners were cut? They did not have the wisdom, or the concern, to build a safe dwelling. Cutting corners is rarely wise, especially when safety is at stake.

We attempt to define wisdom through the separation of IQ and EQ. Intelligence quotient says I can solve this problem on paper. Executive function quotient says I can work with others to implement the problem in real life. Executive function attempts to quantify managerial functions that allow teams to work successfully through the domains of planning, organizing, controlling and monitoring actions and thoughts. There is wisdom in executive function but it has its limits as well. Neither addresses the concept of timing, or when to act and when not to act. One can plan and organize a wonderful project but implement it at the wrong time. It is this indefinable timing that makes wisdom something one cannot teach. Psychology tries to mimic wisdom with personality indicators but sensing the best timing and a person’s next steps is too individual to a given situation.

The OT law and Jesus sermon on the mount are textbooks to the start of wisdom. Yet the scriptures say that wisdom is more and that Jehovah gives wisdom as a gift if we ask for it. Solomon achieved long lasting fame due to his wisdom because he asked in a humble way, knowing he did not have the skills to lead Israel. Jehovah looks at each man’s heart for the reason for the request. Is it to benefit yourself or others? Solomon proved that his request was for the good of Israel and it was granted.

When a county starts to show signs of a lack of wisdom, one knows that its’ destruction is at the door. Many have questioned why Jehovah allowed Biden to lead this country. The answer is pretty obvious if one believes that Jehovah gives blesses nations with wise leaders. Wisdom tells us that unwise leaders=cursed nation.

Biden as president has led to a massive increase in the numbers of unknown persons crossing our borders. 

A lack of wisdom says “We need more people to pay into social security. Let’s let anyone come in who crosses the borders”. 

A lack of wisdom says “We need more democratic voters. If we let anyone cross our borders they will vote for us.”

Biden and his regime only see the need for low wage earners and for dumb puppets who can mark their name on a ballet. They do not see the repercussions of allowing untold numbers of persons in our doors who 1. will be mostly low wage earners 2. may not vote as projected 3.  will overwhelm our current systems 4. will increase crime on our citizenry (or be subjected to crime/slavery etc) 5. may be part of a coalition (IE: Chinese soldiers and their allies) gaining intel and positioning for a future attack, to name one of many outcomes. Biden doesn’t live with the ramifications of millions of people, a number of whom seem to be here to pillage sections of our country, or wanting a free ride in “Sanctuary” cities. Leaders of sanctuary cities did not count the cost of literally hundreds of thousands of people with their hand out defecating on their streets. These leaders are people with a serious lack of wisdom.

Biden as president has led to billions given in (or abandoned) military equipment to unstable regimes. Our technology is now their technology to be sold to the highest bidder. China anyone? We watch as our food plants go up in smoke, probably from those who entered our borders with a mission to destabilize our food production. And we are told, “nothing to see here” because a lack of wisdom is blinding those in power.

Again, I do think Jehovah is using Biden’s stupidity to give out our technology, to let in undocumented aliens, to destabilize our food supplies for purposes of His own. Time will tell but it will not be to our national good. Do we not see on nearly a weekly basis how Jehovah’s climate changes are causing havoc to all areas in America? We see but we do not understand. Wisdom is understanding what we see in spiritual terms. Jehovah as the Great Potter is breaking down our “national clay pot”. Will He build it back up or destroy it? Well, that is a wisdom-based question that we all should be asking right now. Wisdom tells us to turn from our evil and seek repentance, and Jehovah will relent. I hope He is remodeling our Pot, but I certainly don’t see the repentance needed to re-build us. We need to ask for national wisdom, for a repentant and humble spirit. Failure to do so will eventually lead to our destruction.

Biden certainly was not the first unwise leader we have had in this nation. That goes back for a long time in disastrous policy after policy. Our leaders have been in reactionary mode almost since our inception. For example: the question of what to do about the elderly in the 1930’s led to social security. But it did not lead to questions about the reliability of the system in the future. They just wanted a fix right now and therefore designed a fund that pays “now with later”. It did not consider population change or massive changes in standard of living. Our world is nothing like life in the 1930’s. Social Security should have been privatized to each citizen at its inception, with a portion to fund older workers and retirees paid through a tax until privatization could take over. Changes in population levels devastate the system set up as is, which we are seeing now that the baby boomers have hit the retirement age with much fewer working to fund it. One of the reasons for allowing in immigrants unchecked is in the hope that they will contribute. This is the wrong way to fix the problem. Congress had a chance to fix it with privatization, but their inertia was too great, and their collective wisdom was too little. ”Let the next group handle it” is an unwise policy. Our simple ancestors shared wisdom with a lot of sayings like “a stitch in time saves nine”. Fixing problems when they are smaller will prevent a larger loss.

The way bills and laws are handled is also unwise. Wisdom tells us to be honest and transparent. Each bill or law should stand on its’ own merit. Adding a lot of junk to satisfy the other side weighs down the issue at hand. This kind of bargaining is evil, and has allowed a lot of evil to slide in unobserved. 

The mess of the mid-east is a collective screw up by both Britain and the US back in the early part of the 20th century. We are not the only country with unwise leaders! Lying to the indigenous peoples of Palestine was a colossal error. Creating Israel was a huge screw up as we have lived to see. Jehovah did not promise continual war to a recollected Israel. We need to view this act as one forced by leaders and not sanctioned by Jehovah. Jehovah would not have required a sacrifice of 6 million Jews in order to create Israel! Remember, scriptural wisdom suggests that certain numbers are markers for the underlying influence. Jehovah considers “six” as “incomplete” or “deceptive”. One can see the influencer in the consequences of the action. The consequences of a re-unified Israel have not blessed the world. 

Nixon’s change in the gold system to fiat is now set up to collapse the economy worldwide. Economic systems built on speculation and words will eventually fail. In the end, though, Jehovah will use all of this bad to further His will. Pray for wisdom to see it.

One can see the serious nature of our collective lack of wisdom in the ideas that we have developed over the last 50 years. Ideas that no other nation in the known history of the world has ever developed, no matter how corrupt that nation. This alone should give us pause. We denigrate ancient people’s as less intelligent yet HOW they would laugh in amazement if they read any of our current bullshit. To deny one’s biology is to deny the very essence of our inner being! Every cell has male and female markers. One will always always be one’s birth gender no matter how many external body parts one removes. Those who think they can choose have closed off their minds to the testimony of our genetic code. What does that kind of thinking do to a person? I fear that we shall see, and this “unsoundness of mind” will be part of the explosive materials added to the bomb of our undoing.

Jehovah requires individual and national repentance. Without this we are doomed as a nation as we know it. The scriptures declare a promise and a warning: ”Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” (Isaiah 55:6-7). 

Then the Lord declares to Israel, “Can I not do with you as this potter has done? […] Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand…. At the moment I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, if that nation… turns from its evil (שׁב… מרעתו; shav… mera’ato), I will relent (נחמתי; nahamti) of the disaster that I intended to do to it. But if at the moment I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, [that nation] does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it” (Jer 18:5-10).

What do I believe will happen if we do not repent?  The scriptures declare that national judgment comes in phases, along with signs in the sky.  In broad terms they are:

1. Climate change, often starting with drought or floods
2. Fires, food instability and pestilence, a consequence of climate changes
3. Unwise leadership
4. Influx of foreign peoples, often for conquering
5. Removal of nation/national identity, sometimes with complete destruction

Hebrews 6:7-8: “For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briars, it is rejected [adókimos] and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.“

So….where do you think we are now in the list?  We should be afraid.  We all should be very very afraid.

“True, the white man brought great change.  But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening.  And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob and thwart, then what is progress?” (Chief Luther Standing Bear, 1933)